“I have not talked to them and I don’t intend to talk to them,” Anderson said of federal investigators. “I’m hearing what you guys are hearing, to be honest with you. It’s out there. For me to try to sit up here and answer questions about that, I can’t. I’m sure the FBI, the investigators, they’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

Anderson said it’s possible he has lost a recruit to a program recruiting in that nature.

“You talk about here at Arkansas, we do it the right way,” Anderson said. “I think across the country people know that. We may not get some kids because of that.”